On this day in 1999, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 were published. WCAG 2.2 is still one of the most important standards on the web, ensuring a base level of access for everyone.
Understanding and implementing the Web Accessibility Content Guidelines (WCAG) can be difficult for even trained experts. Catherine helps us with WCAG 2.2′s newest guideline by explaining the requirements and providing examples of how to improve our user interfaces.
Re: AI and the future of Web accessibility Guidelines
'Absolute statements such as “it will never work”, and “AI will be better than people at X” are not helpful to the conversation because it is very unlikely to be an absolute result in the end. Different contexts, different machine-learning approaches, and different data-sets will produce different results.'
approximately 73.2553% of #accesibility issues i've seen recently come from "we decided to keep our UI nice and clean by hiding shit in a tooltip!", followed by the crushing realisation of what it means to have an accessible tooltip #wcag#a11y
"Once you bring in the "AI will do it" line of thinking, we may as well
just remove any author requirement, and WCAG becomes just a list of
requirements for AI user agents to massage any old web content into
something accessible."
Are there freelance #accessibility people or those who have time to work on a possible audit? If you're a beginner in the field and haven't done this kind of work, let me know as well. I'm willing to mentor. Please DM.
Key highlights from the WebAIM Million 2023 report show that of the 1 million home pages tested, 96.3% of home pages had detected WCAG failures. We should be ashamed of ourselves.